Jordi Torrent
Directing
- Born
- April 21, 1955 (age 71)
Jordi Torrent is a film writer-producer-director based in New York City. He studied philosophy in Barcelona and film aesthetics in Paris before moving to New York in 1984. He was media curator at EXIT ART (1985-90) and founded the media production company Duende Pictures in 1989. Several of the films that he has produced and line-produced have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival (“The Keeper”, “The Golden Boat”, “My Life without Me” among them) before gaining international attention. “East on the Compass”, his first feature film as writer-director was selected by the Lincoln Center Film Society for the program 100 years of Catalan filmmaking. His second feature, “The Redemption of the Fish,” was nominated for Best Director at the Milano International Film Festival.
Known for
Behind the camera6
- 2024Third Week Director, Producer, Writer
- 2015Invisible Heroes Director
- 2013La redempció dels peixos Director, Writer, Producer
- 2005L’est de la brúixola Director, Writer
- 2003My Life Without Me Line Producer
- 2002Miotte by Ruiz Producer